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035 $a(OCoLC)on1090284913
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035 $a(OCoLC)1090284913
050 4 $aPS221$b.L35 2019
100 1 $aLake, Christina Bieber,$eauthor.
245 10 $aBeyond the story :$bAmerican literary fiction and the limits of materialism /$cChristina Bieber Lake.
264 1 $aNotre Dame, Indiana :$bUniversity of Notre Dame Press,$c[2019]
300 $axi, 198 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 $a"Beyond the Story: American Literary Fiction and the Limits of Materialism argues that theology is crucial to understanding the power of contemporary American stories. By drawing on the theories of M. M. Bakhtin, Christian personalism, and contemporary phenomenology, Lake argues that literary fiction activates an irreducibly personal intersubjectivity between author, reader, and characters. Stories depend on a dignity-granting valuation of the particular lives of ordinary people, which is best described as an act of love that mirrors the love of the divine. Through original readings of the fiction of Philip Roth, Cormac McCarthy, Lydia Davis, Toni Morrison, and others, Lake enters into a dialogue with postsecular theory and cognitive literary studies to reveal the limits of sociobiology's approach to culture. The result is a book that will remind readers how storytelling continually reaffirms the transcendent value of human beings in an inherently personal cosmos"--$cProvided by publisher.
650 0 $aAmerican literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aMaterialism in literature.
650 0 $aReligion and literature.
650 7 $aAmerican literature.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00807113
650 7 $aMaterialism in literature.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01011768
650 7 $aReligion and literature.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01093839
648 7 $a1900-1999$2fast
655 7 $aCriticism, interpretation, etc.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01411635
852 00 $bglx$hPS221$i.L35 2019